Quoting: StalePopcornThey made $2.8 BILLION last year… they're insincere at best, more likely full of shit and lying through their teeth about their options.

those 2 billions include how much they pay their creators?

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Quoting: LoudTechieNow they once again believe they've got a tool that can stop Linux users.
Lets see.

they have, ban account from people who insist in playing on wine.

maybe we can make custom servers for linux users, but that is liking forking facebook and ignoring that people are there to interact with other people and their content...
its like playing an MMO with only 1% of the players...

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Quoting: Pengling

Quoting: psycho_driverMy daughters were both addicted to Roblox when they initially released their AC and I refused to set up anything windows based in my home so they had to go cold turkey. They've been able to play again since September or so but the old one seems mostly weened off and the younger one isn't as susceptible to hardcore addiction as the older, so she'll be fine. Adios, Roblox.

Hopefully they were unaffected by the many problems affecting it!

Roblox Has a "Cannibal Cult"...
Roblox: The children's game with a sex problem
Investigation: How Roblox Is Exploiting Young Game Developers
Roblox Pressured Us to Delete Our Video. So We Dug Deeper.
A 12-Year-Old Sued Roblox and WON

And so on, and so on...

the sex offenders is the biggest issue, but this is a problem in any online experience , i dont know about an solution that dont require parents monitoring what their kids are doing and only allowing then to play online when they are arround.
as for the exploiting young developers, the easy solution is introducing an proper game engine that wont take 80% of your profits, and give up on making anything commercial in easy to use tools like roblox, use then just to have fun instead.

i never heard about the cannibal one, dont know what its about and dont have time to read /watch it.

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Quoting: psycho_driverMy daughters were both addicted to Roblox when they initially released their AC and I refused to set up anything windows based in my home so they had to go cold turkey. They've been able to play again since September or so but the old one seems mostly weened off and the younger one isn't as susceptible to hardcore addiction as the older, so she'll be fine. Adios, Roblox.

i hope they dont grow up hating linux because you enforced it...

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i dont know why they bother to reply, linux users will ignore it and pretend there is an easy solution, when there isnt any.

the cheating industry move more money than the linux gaming industry, and as an result there is more money being poured into cheating solutions.

not to mention that cheaters just need to find 1 flaw to cheat, while anti cheat solution need to find ALL the flaws to stop cheatters.

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"a camera API"
first thing to do with this:
implement on godot!
someone please?

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyOK, I don't think much of some of the stuff gbudny is saying.

But there is an issue with old Linux native games not running on modern Linux (to be fair, even Windows' once-impressive backward compatibility has been slipping in recent versions). But it seems to me like it could be a pretty solvable issue. I mean, all the code from then is available, right? And the Linux kernel itself as I understand it is very backwards-compatible, so it's all about libraries and stuff, yes? So, like, shouldn't it be possible to make Flatpak-ish sandboxes that reproduce various vintages of Linux, using old libraries (or, where they'd actually work fine, new libraries renamed to look like old ones)?

good luck solving dependece hell for packages that arent distributed anymore.
maybe you can just rename an new library for it old name in some cases...
the issue is if they rely on an fork of the library

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Quoting: gbudnyIt's just not too entertaining for me to play games for Windows.

games are games, i dont see things like "games for windows" they are just games that happens to support windows, consoles if they can (since consoles are an curated market that only accept games from big publishers and sucessfull indies) and in some rare cases mac or linux.

most normal people just wanted to play the games their friends were playing or the ones they saw an ad for, the difference between an gamer and an linux gamer was that linux gamers only cared about the games that supported linux, and the normal gamers cared about games in general , they purchased consoles to play their exclusives if they cared about then, or played on pc if they dont wich means they had access to everything else, and then there is the linux hipster guys who played only a few games that supported linux and claim these are enough despite not knowing what they were missing, sigh.


seriously, i wont deny that i had a lot of fun with the lemings clone that was better than the original (pingus >>> lemings ms-dos) and a LOT of fun with frozen bubble (thanks in part to the awesome musics, but im just adctied to those puzzle games) but come on, ignoring games like ocarina of time because they dont have an port for linux?

let me tell you something, the reason why i and many people love linux and open source , is not because its an beauty ideology that we support but because such ideology fucking works, if we had to chose between playing our musics, animes, movies, games and using linux what you think the vast majority would do?
linux dont have an small marketshare just because people dont know how to install an OS, ask anyone on my country what they did when their computer came with an crap OS like Satux, they shoved an pirated copy of xp on it.
one of the biggest reasons why linux dont grow is that when people finally give it a chance they regreat.
valve is fixing it.

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Quoting: gbudnyI think it's far more important for Microsoft that Linux users have some doubts about all the work done by dead companies like Loki Software. I think about the open source libraries used in creating native games for Linux. This mistrust of Linux users to own companies is beneficial for Microsoft.

except that , this is not how things works.

gaming on linux was dead, we were receiving less and less ports and losing the small marketshare we had, a few people are stubborn and would never use windows but the vast majority of normal people couldnt care less and went back to windows as soon as they realize they were losing access to some incredible games and softwares by using linux.

honestly i almost gave up, we had not game engines so i tried to develop one, we had no video editors, no tools like "substance painter", not to mention the issues to install an game that i had no guarante would work on my video card or if i updated the OS, evne open source native games had issues.

meanwhile an game running on wine, used the native python in case the game had python scripts, the native java in case the game had java code among all the other code on it...
if an game is writen using vulkan wine just passthrough the vulkan calls to the linux drivers.

linux was dying without any hope to recover until valve made proton.
if we grow the marketshare we will have more native ports and an proper support from game engines like unity that currently threat us as second class citizens.

speaking of it, nowadays almost all games use thirdy party game engines, and their support for an platform is as good as the engine support is, its pointless to talk about the good work of companies that support linux like loki, loki probably had full control of their own code, unlike anyone who uses unity.
if unity ignore the native libraries that linux have and make their own libraries and port then in order to support it, then praising our libraries is useless.

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Quoting: Phlebiac

Quoting: pleasereadthemanualsupporting Linux natively long-term, even with open source engines, seems far more challenging than other platforms.

Which other platforms? Microsoft does a fair job of backwards compatibility with Windows, but certainly Apple does not. macOS developers have to keep up on maintenance, or their customers can't play their games after a few OS updates.

consoles are totally closed platforms with NDA and a lot of i$$ues that make it hard for an open source engine to support then.

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